Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Jonathan Schertzer (PhD) is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences and is involved with the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute and McMaster Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Research. He is a Canada Research Chair in Metabolic inflammation
He completed his PhD in 2007 at The University of Melbourne (Australia) where he studied insulin-like growth factors and endocrine control of muscle mass and metabolism. He then did postdoctoral work with Dr. Amira Klip at SickKids in Toronto (Canada) where he studied the cell biology of glucose transport and metabolism. While in Toronto he got interested in bacteria among the sources of “inflammation” that could influence metabolism, and he worked on bacterial cell wall sensing and host metabolism.
He tries to help scientists understand how xenobiotics, diet, and microbial stress promote or combat obesity, prediabetes, and diabetic complications. Dr. Schertzer is excited to foster students and fellows to discover new aspects in the 2-way street between host glucose and bacteria (both commensal and pathogenic). His lab is currently working on discovering new postbiotics and ways to deliver or capture bacterial factors that alter host metabolism. Outside of the lab he enjoys hockey, which is now mainly coaching his son’s team.
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